It was the first day of their new lives. The keys were in the door. He was just starting to unpack the boxes. She was wandering through the house, trying to find her bearings. She reached the attic and tugged the rope that dangled from the ceiling.

The attic door swung down, revealing a narrow space filled with cobwebs. There, at the far end of the room, was an additional door. It was tucked away, hidden by shadows. She hadn't seen it before. She approached cautiously.

She pushed at the door. It wasn't locked. The door creaked open, revealing a small room, filled with strange tools and equipment. She couldn't breathe. Her vision started to blur.

Emotion: panicked

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety
PC1 (Valence): -2.44 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 0.00

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion panicked. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 panicked stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the panicked emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the panicked vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
worse0.317
😫0.294
😖0.285
😰0.285
escape0.283
Suppressed:
la-0.432
a-0.374
de-0.296
楽し-0.262
happy-0.258